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Acknowledgments | |
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General Introduction | |
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The Context of Understanding and Debate | |
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Opening Frameworks | |
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Introduction | |
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Religion in Primitive Culture | |
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life | |
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | |
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Religion as a Cultural System | |
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Skeptical Rejoinders | |
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Introduction | |
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Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough | |
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Religion, Totemism and Symbolism | |
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Christians as Believers | |
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The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category | |
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Poiesis: The Composition of Religious Worlds | |
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Signs and Symbols | |
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Introduction | |
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The Logic of Signs and Symbols | |
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The Problem of Symbols | |
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On Key Symbols | |
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The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol | |
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Structure, Function, and Interpretation | |
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Introduction | |
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Myth in Primitive Psychology | |
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Folk Dialectics of Nature and Culture | |
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Land Animals, Pure and Impure | |
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A Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo | |
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Text-Building, Epistemology, and Aesthetics in Javanese Shadow Theatre | |
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Moral Inversions and Spaces of Disorder | |
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Introduction | |
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The Winnebago Trickster Figure | |
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Witchcraft and Sexual Relations | |
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An Exploration in the Social and Semantic Implications of the Structure of Belief | |
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The Politics and Poetics of Transgression | |
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Conceptualizing the Cosmos | |
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Introduction | |
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Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual Alfred Gell | |
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Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism | |
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Praxis: Religious Action | |
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The Movement in Ritual: Emergence | |
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Introduction | |
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The Control of Experience: Symbolic Action | |
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Form and Meaning of Magical Acts | |
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Liminality and Communitas | |
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Religion and Personal Experience | |
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Introduction | |
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Fate in Relation to the Social Structure | |
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Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience | |
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Spirits and Selves in Northern Sudan: The Cultural Therapeutics of Possession and Trance | |
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The Poetics of Time in Mayan Divination | |
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What Ritual Does: The Foundations of Order | |
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Introduction | |
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The Disconnection between Power and Rank as a Process: Maurice Bloch | |
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Enactments of Meaning | |
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Historical Dynamics: Power, Modernity, and Change | |
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Capitalism, Colonialism, Christianity, and Conflict | |
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Introduction | |
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The Genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil's Labor and the Baptism of Money | |
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The Colonization of Consciousness | |
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Religious Ethics and Politics in the State and the Transnational Scene | |
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Introduction | |
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Civil Religion in America | |
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"Using the Past to Negate the Present": Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient China | |
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Passional Preaching, Aural Sensibility, and the Islamic Revival in Cairo | |
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Moral Landscapes: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains | |
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Research Tools | |
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A Guide to the Literature | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |